Site Reliability Engineer, Quizlet
Platform
$110-230k
+ Company stock options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Learning tools for students and teachers
Job no longer available
Learning tools for students and teachers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$110-230k
+ Company stock options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To give every student the tools and confidence to succeed, no matter their motivation or what they’re striving to achieve.
Role
Who you are
- Proven History of Architectural Ownership: and driving reliability initiatives within complex, distributed production environments as an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role
- We also welcome experienced Software Engineers (backend/systems) with a dedicated focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence
- Core Systems Development: Proficiency in Go and/or Python, with a proven history of developing and deploying production-grade automation and control plane components for infrastructure teams
- You must be experienced and comfortable providing hands-on operational support for critical, high-volume legacy codebases (like a PHP/HHVM/Hack monolith) while driving modernization efforts
- Kubernetes Control Plane Engineering: Deep operational and architectural knowledge of Kubernetes (GKE) and the complexities of service mesh (Istio) networking in a high-volume environment
- High-Volume Tooling: Expert experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. , Terraform)
- Observability & Debugging: Mastery of high-volume monitoring and observability stacks like Datadog, and a proven ability to perform deep-dive root cause analysis under production load using systems like Jeli
- Systems Foundation: Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and the challenges of large-scale distributed cloud architectures on GCP (AWS or equivalent)
- At Quizlet, we’re excited about passionate people joining our team—even if you don’t check every box on the requirements list. We value unique perspectives and believe everyone has something meaningful to contribute
What the job involves
- We're looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to be a systems developer who engineers the software, tools, and automation required to scale our platform for the next generation of AI features
- System Resilience & Self-Healing: Develop, test, and implement high-volume connection management and auto-scaling logic (in Go) for our Kubernetes clusters. Introduce and maintain self-healing and auto-remediation capabilities into core service layers to maintain 99.95% availability under peak load
- Dev Tooling & MTTR Improvement: Architect and implement tooling and automation that measurably improves our Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR)
- Optimize our CI/CD toolchain (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD) by writing and hardening deployment controllers and safety checks
- Deep Observability & Diagnostics: Design and deploy instrumentation within Datadog for high-volume monitoring
- Utilize deep-dive investigations and platforms like Jeli to drive architectural improvements that measurably reduce operational toil
- Architectural Consulting & Standards: Act as a senior subject matter expert, partnering directly with Product Engineering teams to review designs, define SLOs, and ensure new services are inherently resilient and operable before production deployment
- Data Layer Performance Tuning: Conduct advanced performance analysis and capacity planning for our transactional and analytical databases (Spanner, PlanetScale, BigQuery), optimizing query execution and eliminating hot-spotting
Application process
- We work to create a holistic interview process, where both Quizlet and candidates have an opportunity to view what it would be like to work together, in exploring a mutually beneficial partnership
- We provide a transparent setting that gives a comprehensive view of who we are!
Our take
Quizlet has evolved from a simple flashcard tool into one of the most recognizable consumer learning platforms, now serving over 60M active users. It reaches two-third of US high schoolers and half of college students, putting it among the top 20 US websites and leading education apps on mobile.
Its core strength lies in helping students learn quickly and effectively through tools like flashcards, practice tests, AI-generated study guides, and now course-specific collaborative folders. By focusing on efficiency and relevance, Quizlet has become a go-to resource for students who want targeted, outcome-driven study support. And its collaborative features also allow large groups of students to share and refine materials together, so learning really is a shared experience.
Recent expansions - including Course-Powered Quizlet and its deepened partnership with Brand Metrics - show the platform's continued momentum. With AI-driven personalization, independent ad measurement, and growing peer-recommended content, Quizlet is strengthening trust with advertisers while meeting modern student expectations. And these advancements sure position Quizlet as a leading, forward-thinking plater in ed-tech.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
75% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2020
$30m
SERIES C
Feb 2018
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $62m
Company benefits
- Competitive Healthcare: Comprehensive health, dental, vision and disability plans for you and your family. 100% paid premiums for employees, 75% for dependents
- PTO & Family Benefits: Everyone gets 20 days of PTO, a minimum of 10 paid holidays, and 5 volunteer days off. We also provide resources for growing families, such as Carrot (fertility & family forming) and UrbanSitter (daycare & nannies). Our generous family leave plan offers 12 weeks of leave plus disability leave for birthing mothers when welcoming a new little learner into their family.
- Learning & Development: Here at Quizlet, we invest in our employees’ career development to support learning and professional growth. Employees have access to LinkedIn Learning, an on-demand learning solution designed to help them gain new skills and advance their careers. We host speakers and workshops and also offer support for other professional development opportunities.
- Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options and a 401k match that makes saving for retirement easy.
- Wellness: We strive to promote the physical and mental health & well-being of our employees. We offer resources for mental health & well-being, plus a $100/month reimbursement towards wellness and fitness memberships.
- Commuter Benefits: We don’t have a school bus, but we'll help cover 50% of your public commuter & parking costs, plus pre-tax FSA. If you decide to work late, your ride home is on us.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kurt Beidler
(CEO)Prior to joining Quizlet in 2024, Kurt was the Co-CEO of Swift. He also spent 17 years at Amazon in various roles, including General Manager of Automotive Sales, Advertising, and Amazon Kids as well as Director of Kindle Content in Beijing.
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